Comments on: Tax Caps, Anyone?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:58:15 +0000

Today, the US Supreme Court acknowledged the 1st Amendment rights of corporations, to free speech (campaign finance, etc).

Might the GA discover, that the equal protection thing, also applies to Indiana's inequitable tax “caps?”

By: arnie

arnie — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:22:49 +0000

You are right on Dave.

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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:49:21 +0000

Anent discussion about ending the piecemeal confiscation of property demanded by those whose goal in life is to grow government I'd suggest that it is just beginning. The defenders of $29,000 per year health care benefits for all school employees exist but they have to be a smaller number than those who tote the taxes to pay for that sort of economic theft. “The 150″ did nothing at all about that theft that I am aware of.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:28:01 +0000

Considering the less than sincere (2006 unanimous vote in favor of REPEAL), sound bitten culture of the GA; it's at least the reel world. Politics is less an art of the possible & more one of appearances.

Goals it's been said, should be SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant & trackable, something like that). What kind of goals are 1/2/3 "caps" & Indiana's assessment system? Transparent? Where are the CITIZEN SPECIFIC, real world reductions in property taxes?

A 5% range for assessment increases has an arbitrary, COLA quality to it; hardly a "cap" or taxpayer "protection;" particularly when multiplied by a 1, 2 or 3 factor. Assessments can double every ~15 years, because "they say so."

The wing tips have only begun to drop in the commercial real estate market, where increasingly, "owners" will turn to demolition for property tax "relief." Fewer jobs, fewer people, fewer rentals & sales; that's "the answer?"

We've either lost or gained, in dollars & census.

By: guest

guest — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:06:44 +0000

If this passes, were screwed.

By: melyssa

melyssa — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:23:37 +0000

I hope that no one ever forgets that once upon a time in America “the real world” meant no civil rights for people of color and a life of second class servitude for women who had no right to vote.

I think it might be stated more accurately to call this “status quo” instead of “the real world”.

Again, any taxation of homestead property is akin to slavery, or at best, indentured servitude.

By: Rico

Rico — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:46:57 +0000

You mean 3% commercial.